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Special Topic: Non-cooperative dialogue systems

Required Readings (for all students)

  1. D. R. Traum, W. Swartout, J Gratch, S Marsella, A Virtual Human Dialogue Model for Non-team Interaction, in Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue Springer, Laila Dybkjaer and Wolfgang Minker, Eds, pp. 45--67, 2008.
  2. Guhe, M. and A. Lascarides Trading in a Multiplayer Board Game: Towards an Analysis of Non-Cooperative Dialogue, Proceedings of Cognitive Science, Tokyo. 2012.
  3. David Traum, Non-Cooperative and Deceptive Virtual Agents, in IEEE Intelligent Systems 27(6): Trends and Controversies: Computational Deception and Noncooperation, pages 66-69, 2012.
  4. Curry, Amanda Cercas, Gavin Abercrombie, and Verena Rieser. ConvAbuse: Data, Analysis, and Benchmarks for Nuanced Abuse Detection in Conversational AI. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 7388-7403. 2021.

Required Readings(for presenter(s) and rapporteur(s))

  1. A. Jameson, B. Kipper, A. Ndiaye, R. Schäfer, J. Simons, T. Weis, and D. Zimmermann Cooperating to Be Noncooperative: The Dialog System PRACMA Proceedings of the Eighteenth German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, September 1994.
  2. Kim, Julia M., Randall W. Hill, Jr, Paula J. Durlach, H. Chad Lane, Eric Forbell, Mark Core, Stacy Marsella, David Pynadath, and John Hart. BiLAT: A game-based environment for practicing negotiation in a cultural context. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 19, no. 3 (2009): 289-308.
  3. Georgila K. and Traum D. Reinforcement Learning of Argumentation Dialogue Policies in Negotiation. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), Florence, Italy, 2011.
  4. ŁUPKOWSKI, PAWEŁ, and ALEKSANDRA RYBACKA. Non-cooperative Strategies of Players in the Loebner Contest.Organon F 23, no. 3 (2016): 324-366.
  5. Federica Cavicchio and Massimo Poesio (Non)Cooperative Dialogues: The Role of Emotions Human Factors 54(4): 546-559 (2012)
  6. Brian Plüss and Paul Piwek. 2016. Measuring Non-cooperation in Dialogue. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 1925–1936, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
  7. Aslani, Soroush, Jimena Ramirez‐Marin, Jeanne Brett, Jingjing Yao, Zhaleh Semnani‐Azad, Zhi‐Xue Zhang, Catherine Tinsley, Laurie Weingart, and Wendi Adair. Dignity, face, and honor cultures: A study of negotiation strategy and outcomes in three cultures. Journal of Organizational Behavior 37, no. 8 (2016): 1178-1201.
  8. Lewis, Mike, et al. Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning of Negotiation Dialogues. Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2017.
  9. Chin, Hyojin, and Mun Yong Yi. Should an agent be ignoring it? A study of verbal abuse types and conversational agents' response styles. Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2019.
  10. Kushal Chawla, Jaysa Ramirez, Rene Clever, Gale Lucas, Jonathan May, and Jonathan Gratch. 2021. CaSiNo: A Corpus of Campsite Negotiation Dialogues for Automatic Negotiation Systems. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 3167–3185, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  11. Anthony Sicilia, Tristan Maidment, Pat Healy, Malihe Alikhani; Modeling Non-Cooperative Dialogue: Theoretical and Empirical Insights. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2022; 10 1084–1102.
  12. Hautli-Janisz, Annette, Katarzyna Budzynska, Conor McKillop, Brian Plüss, Valentin Gold, and Chris Reed. Questions in argumentative dialogue. Journal of Pragmatics 188 (2022): 56-79.
  13. Bakhtin, A., Brown, N., Dinan, E., Farina, G., Flaherty, C., Fried, D., Goff, A., Gray, J., Hu, H., Jacob, A.P. and Komeili, M., 2022. Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy by combining language models with strategic reasoning. Science, 378(6624), pp.1067-1074.
  14. Jäckel, Elisabeth, Alfred Zerres, Clara S. Hemshorn de Sanchez, Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock, and Joachim Hüffmeier. NegotiAct: Introducing a comprehensive coding scheme to capture temporal interaction patterns in negotiations. Group & Organization Management 49, no. 3 (2024): 743-783.